That's one of the best looking message styles Ive seen, but I miss to see the pic of the other person. If it could have an upper band with the name on it like the Brainbite message view style it would be more than awsome. I would do it myself but I dont know how to do that.

This is an awesome style. It is almost exactly what I have been waiting for. Would you consider, in the future, doing a mod of this where the name bars are flat instead of glossy, like the pastel bars that show when someone goes away. That would make this the best style ever ever ever. But I am very fond of it the way it is now, anyhow. Great work!

Thanks for the comments. For everyone asking for a header: I played around with the idea but didn't find a solution that offered any advantages to not having one. In 0.8 you can have the buddy icon in the toolbar, and the name of the person you're talking to is in the window's titlebar. Kristen: Flat name bars is definitely something to consider... I can see that the glossy bars doesn't fit in every situation.

Wow, found this yesterday and its simply amazing. At first I was looking for the option of adding buddy icons..in fact, I was willing to go into the source and play around with it to try to add but eventually got lazy and wanted to see if anyone had asked for it on the site. After reading the message above I thought for a moment, and then realized your intentions...it's quite annoying having the icon display after each message...and since you say that in Adium 0.8 we will have the icon in the titlebar, it makes much more sense to leave it out of the actual theme...at least for now. Anyway, keep up the great work and lets hope 0.8 comes soon! Very soon!

EDIT: However, I'd like to make a suggestion: When long links are entered, maybe the text should be wrapped to the next line? I think it would look a little nicer.
Perhaps a possible left-floating timestamp? Or does that not look good...anyway, as I said before, keep it up!

I think you should make the green a bit less vomit-ey. The other colors are awesome, but im looking for a good green, because my desktop and shapeshifter theme are both a lime-y green. So if you could change that a bit, that would be awesome.

Very cool, but one thing, it would be cool if you could have a Header with user icons and so, like in Big Icons, if you could combine that with this, (the colors and so on) it would be the greatest messege style ever

I love the look of this theme and would use it in a heart beat. But for some reason when I try to use it, I get only flat colours not the cool 3d effect with them. And I downloaded it because of the look in the pics. I am using the newest beta of tiger so it might be a problem with tiger and not how you wrote it. If that is the case I will be looking forward to when you update it for tiger.

I find this to be the most awesome theme for adium, I'd like to see a variation with usericons beside the text or in a bar above. Just for us guys who like our and the people we chat with -s icons. Keep it up!

I have the same problem as Noah, above. Using Tiger 8A425 here, and its all flat. Still nice, just... flat. I think it might be something to do with the way webkit is implemented. I'm going to have a little tweak and see if I can fix it.

Well, I had a little play with the CSS but couldn't seem to fix it. The code looks totally sound to me, so I have no idea why its not working.

Bah. I'd be more than happy to be your code monkey if you care to throw some suggestions at me, if one works I can just email you the update and save you all the bother. Not to mention I'd feel deserving of this developer release, because I'd have helped out in some tiny way.

Apparently, I had upgraded the message style to the new format that is only available in Adium 0.8, and since I was in a rush to fix the issue with 10.3.9 I forgot to try it in 0.77 before I uploaded. I've uploaded a new version of 1.1 that will work. Sorry for any inconvenience.

this message view is still not working for me. the first option of "blue" has the candybar format, but no colour. any option after that has the colour but is NOT in a candybar format. just blocks of coloured text.

The message styles are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Message Styles/ . Try removing Candybars.AdiumMessageStyle and installing a new copy. Adium should replace message styles when you install new ones with the same name, but it's worth a try.

I love this theme, but I don't use it for my regular message style because it doesn't show icons (could just be up at the top, or in line with the text), and the colors besides blue are not appealing to me. The blue is gorgeous, but every color I want to pair it with looks a little "off," especially green. And I can't use blue-blue because without icons it's too hard to tell them apart. So icons and a variant of green that's not so sickly-looking would make this my absolute favorite style.

I literally spent... well, I don't know how long I spent looking for this message layout after installing leopard from scratch and neglecting to remind myself what I was using, but it was well worth it.